Business Rates

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of documents relating to the attendance of the head of the rating policy team at the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation conference on post revaluation and current issues on maintaining the business rates system in Blackpool on 11 to 12 May 2006.

Phil Woolas: A copy of the slides for the presentation entitled business rates—post revaluation and current issues, given to this conference by the head of the business rates team in my Department are on the internet at:-
	http://www.inr.tv/conference/enforcement/qwertyuiop/Speakers_Slides_CollEnf06_v1.pdf and copies have also been placed in the Libraries of the House.